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With Shell abandoning its exploration plans in the Chukchi Sea in September and Statoil following suit in November, many might believe that the North Slope Basin off the northern coast of Alaska has been condemned. Yet those who have put decades into studying the geology of Alaska’s North Slope and Outer Continental Shelf believe the opposite.

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Meet Hugh Mackey of Europa Oil and Gas who is a featured speaker at the APPEX Global 2016 Conference and Exhibition in March in London, England. The talk will review recent exploration activity in the North Atlantic - offshore Newfoundland and offshore West Ireland and will show that despite the low oil prices quality exploration assets continue to attract significant investment.

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Meet Michael Hall of Airbus Defence and Space who is a featured speaker at the APPEX Global 2016 Conference and Exhibition in March in London, England. This talk will review the application of the latest remote sensing technology and analysis to oil and gas exploration for improving efficiency and reducing risk.

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Meet Nick Holloway of IHS who is a featured speaker at the APPEX Global 2016 Conference and Exhibition in March in London, England. This paper sets out to examine the potential of horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing being used outside of North America and present some preliminary ideas about the scale of the opportunities.

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Meet Ben Sayers of TGS who is a featured speaker at the APPEX Global 2016 Conference and Exhibition in March in London, England. This talk will focus on the success and geology of the MSGBC basin.

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Energy Policy Blog

In December 2015, the Committee on Offshore Science and Assessment held its inaugural meeting at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The committee, which was established by NAS’s Ocean Studies and Earth Sciences Boards, is sponsored by The Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). The primary purpose of this new committee is for NAS to assist BOEM by providing ongoing scientific feedback to most effectively manage the nation’s offshore energy resources in a way that is both environmentally and economically sound.

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Explorer Policy Watch

The long-term projections have changed little in the year since this column last reported on the annual International Energy Agency (IEA) “World Energy Outlook,” but the tone is much different. Last year’s report was concerned about finding the investments to meet demand; now the world has surpluses of oil and gas and a booming renewables industry.  

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Explorer Division Column EMD

Natural gas hydrate (NGH), a crystalline compound of water and natural gas, has been recognized as a vast potential energy resource for over two decades, but its commerciality has persistently remained beyond the horizon due to technical and economic hurdles.

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DL Abstract

Climate change is not only happening in the atmosphere but also in the anthroposphere; in some ways the former could drive or exacerbate the latter, with extreme weather excursions and extreme excursions from societal norms occurring all over the earth. Accomplishing geoscience for a common goal – whether that is for successful business activities, resource assessment for public planning, mitigating the impacts of geological hazards, or for the sheer love of furthering knowledge and understanding – can and should be done by a workforce that is equitably developed and supported. Difficulty arises when the value of institutional programs to increase equity and diversity is not realized.

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